Chapter 157: Normal People

Chapter 157: Normal People

A few seconds later, heavy footsteps came from the staircase. They sounded like many pairs of boots. They came upstairs. Jiang Cheng and Chen Xiaomeng were passive. They would be soon trapped by the villagers on the third-floor corridor.

Chen Xiaomeng and Jiang Cheng moved at the same time. They ran towards Room 307 which door was still open. Chen Xiaomeng grabbed the wooden chair beside the table and smashed it against the window. The chair flew out the building and landed with a thud on the ground. Chen Xiaomeng hoped that would grab the pedestrian’s attention.

However, when she looked out the broken window, her heart chilled. The pedestrians continued on like nothing was out of the ordinary. The hawkers kept shouting. Two women carrying grocery baskets walked past the broken wooden chair as if they couldn’t see the chair dumped in the middle of the road.

It was so strange. However, this was the nightmare realm.

Jiang Cheng yanked the blanket, swiped the oil lamp and rushed back into the corridor.

Chen Xiaomeng followed him. After all, they both knew that it would be worse for them to be trapped in the room.

At that moment, a few large men came up the stairs. There were six of them. They had tanned skin. The leading man had a beard and hostility on his face. Jiang Cheng recognised two people behind him. When the village head led the people to put out the fire at the Qian Family Ancestral Hall, these two were part of the group.

However, they looked rather pitiful now. They had ashes on their faces, and their bodies were covered in small scratches. One of the men had a bloody leg. The wound was bound with bandages to stop the bleeding.

“San Yazi!” A voice with suppressed anger came from the stairs. The village head appeared on the top of the stairs, supported by the tanned man who had always been by his side. Jiang Cheng had once given him a steamed bun.

Jiang Cheng didn’t react, but the man’s face changed. He felt like he was hitting a tree. While the man was stunned, Jiang Cheng elbowed the man in his chest. The man floated backwards. He was knocked into the wall behind him. His heart stopped for a moment. Something fell out of his clothes. It was a shredded part of a woman’s attire. It was black with lacy trim. It was so delicate that it didn’t look like it was manufactured in this era.

Jiang Cheng’s blade, aimed at the man’s heart, halted. Something spread in Jiang Cheng’s eyes. His pupils shrunk. There was a flash, and the man lost his right arm. Just as he was about to scream, the blade accurately cut into the joint connecting his arm and shoulder. It squeezed into the bones. The tissues were shredded. Jiang Cheng didn’t hold back as he saw through the tendons.

The horrible scream echoed in his ears as Jiang Cheng elegantly wiped the blood from his face.

On the other hand, Chen Xiaomeng was also done with her opponent. It was the bearded man. Based on their conservation, the bearded man was the village head’s son. The man’s target had always been Chen Xiaomeng all along. However, Chen Xiaomeng was not a defenceless woman. After a few rounds, the girl accurately severed the man’s limb nerves. The man slumped on the ground like a cripple.

“San Yazi!” The village head also cried blood. He only had three sons. His eldest son was blown up by the mine at the village entrance. His second son was caught in the blast and was crippled from the waist down. Now, his third son...

“Dad... Help...” Before the bearded man could finish, he was interrupted by a scream. Chen Xiaomeng used the back of her heels to grind the man’s thumb.

The three muscular men were disposed of in mere minutes. This was something the villagers didn’t expect.

Even though there were many of them, Jiang Cheng and Chen Xiaomeng had the village head’s son as their hostage.

The next second, with everyone looking on in shock, the expressionless Jiang Cheng picked up one of the lifeless men by his head and smashed his head firmly into the wall.